Theatre and Dance by Kate Elswit

Theatre and Dance by Kate Elswit

This succinct and engaging text explores the interdependence between theatre and dance.

A brilliantly lucid account of the tangled histories and contemporary partnership of theatre and dance* Susan Manning, Northwestern University, USA *
The ideal guide to the complex entanglements of theatre and dance. A distillation of Elswit's expertise, broad in scope and rich in elegantly formulated insights. * Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary University of London, UK *
The book was excellent ... If you work in a department of Theatre and Dance and you have an annual department retreat, I do think everyone should buy this book and read it and talk about it together. * On TAP Podcast *
Theatre & Dance is an endlessly useful book … Elswit’s text manages the difficult task of distilling with energy, clarity, and insight an interdisciplinary and often contentious conversation about performance histories, aesthetics, and practices. * Ariel Nereson, University at Buffalo, SUNY in Theatre Survey (2019) *

Kate Elswit is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK, and author of Watching Weimar Dance (2014). She has won four major awards for scholarly publications?the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize from the Congress on Research in Dance, the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Society of Dance History Scholars, the Biennial Sally Banes Publication Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research, and honorable mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781137605740
ISBN 10	113760574X
Title	Theatre and Dance
Author	Kate Elswit
Series	Theatre And
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2018-01-17
Number of pages	96
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